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The most prized of all white loose leaf teas, these are the most perfect pick of the silver tip harvest.
Crafted entirely from the first tender spring buds, high in the remote mountains of Fujian and carefully sorted. These rarest tips are carefully selected only from the first day of the incredibly short harvest of around 5 days, just as the leaf buds reach maturity but before they unfurl to the first new leaves.
Also known as White Silver Needle and Baihao Yinzhen.
Tasting Notes
Tasting Notes
Sweet, clean and extremely elegant white tea, with hints of peach and apricot.
Cost Per Cup
Cost Per Cup
£1 per cup based on 2g of tea per 150ml of water and 2 infusions.
Origin
Origin
Fujian province, China
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Recommended Infusion Guide
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Quantity
Use 2g of tea per 150ml of water.
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Temperature
For the optimum infusion use 70°C water.
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Time
Infuse for 1 - 2 minutes, tasting regularly.
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Infusions
You can infuse this tea at least twice. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.
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Quantity
Use 0.1 oz of leaf per 5.5 fl oz of water.
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Temperature
For the optimum infusion use 158°F water.
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Time
Infuse for 1 - 2 minutes, tasting regularly.
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Infusions
You can infuse this tea at least twice. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.
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Quantity
Use 2 heaped tsp. per 150ml of water.
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Temperature
For the optimum infusion use 70°C water.
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Time
Infuse for 1 - 2 minutes, tasting regularly.
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Infusions
You can infuse this tea at least twice. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.
More infusion tips
How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.
Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

WHITE SILVER TIPS
The very first Rare Tea
We have been bringing White Silver Tips back from China since 2003. It was the very first tea Henrietta (our founder) sourced for Rare Tea Company.
When we began trading in 2004 it was such an extremely rare and esoteric tea that it was pretty much unheard of. People used to ask if white tea wasn’t just tea with milk?
Even within China White Silver Tip was and still is considered very rare tea indeed.
Henrietta was told she was crazy and no one would drink it. Thank heavens they were wrong.
Today it is one of our best-selling teas across the globe and still the tea Henrietta starts each day with.
Prices have gone up with the popularity. We are a victim of our own success. The very best selection of the first tips have become extremely sort after.
Popularity has grown within China, too, and its harder and harder to get the very best. But here it is.

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Returns
The Rare Tea Lady believes that our teas are some of the greatest in the world, and that our range and service are second to none.
In the isolated case that you are not completely satisfied with any tea or teaware you purchase from our website, please get in contact with our customer services team to discuss returning your order.*
In most instances we will give you a full refund of the item’s cost excluding postage. We may ask you to return the item to us. Customers in the European Union have a statutory cooling-off period of fourteen days that is not affected by this guarantee, but any tea pouches much remained sealed for this to be in effect.
*We only accept returns/refunds for tea within two months of receipt, because it is impossible for us to know if the tea has been stored correctly.